Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1914 — Sunday Schools to Hold Union Picnic on July 30th. [ARTICLE]

Sunday Schools to Hold Union Picnic on July 30th.

All the Sunday Schools of Rensselaer, including also the James school house Sunday school, are to join in a union picnic on Thursday of next week, July 30th. It will be held at the Kanne grove, southwest of town, and announcement of the picnic delighted the children and the grown-ups also at the different Sunday schools Sunday morning. The preparation is in charge of a committee from aU the churches and the picnic promises to be one of the most pleasant ever held here. f • 'J .'.v" ? Merl Wood, tyear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lon Wood, southeast of town, fell from a buggy this morning and sustained a broken right collarbone, which Dr. Gwin was called to it tend.

Nineteen members of the Renaseaer graduation class of 1910 held an enjoyable picnic Saturday evening at Naglete grove. The class of 910 consisted Of 30 members and the nineteen who assembled for the * picnic made the trip from town on layladders. They played games, had a fine ptfcnic supper and a pleasant reunion. Trustee Link Parks was in from diiroy township today. He says it is mighty dry there but not so dry as it was 19 years ago. He recalls that in that year there was no rair from Decoration day until the first week in August. It was not so hot, however, as we are having it hem but there was a good crop of com any way, the early August rains coming in time to make the com fill out Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Nowels went to Chicago Sunday, taking their son, Harold, there for an operation, which was performed this Monday 2 morning by Dr. John L Porter at St. Luke’s hospital. Harold is now almost 13 yean of age and some six years ago he suffered a stroke of infantile paralysis which affected both of his kgs. Some time later Harold Roth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milt Roth, was-also stricken. Recently Harold Roth was successfully operated on by Dr. Porter, who took a ligament from the outer side of his crippled foot and plaeed It on the inside of the foot, thereby straightening it The operation proved so successful that Mr. Nowels is having the same kind performed on Harold. The other foot will be plaeed in a east to straighten it A message received here this Monday afternoon stated that Han old eame through the operation in fine shape. He was on the operating table two hours. ‘